Principal Reservoir Engineer

Position adheres to the Group’s Mission, Vision, Values, Strategies, policies, guidelines, and standards, supported by an IT technology platform, HSE standards, Omani government regulations, other legal justifications, and best international practices in consonance with national objectives.

• Conduct workflows pertaining to reserves maturation, well testing, field development planning, and update reservoir management strategies.
• Monitor activities including well surveillance, fluid sampling, well testing, and completion operations.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to apply reservoir engineering practices: well‑test design and analysis, reservoir simulation, reserves evaluation and estimation.
• Direct lab workflows, manage lab data, perform PVT data analysis, develop EoS models, BOT, draft final reports, and present post‑project reviews with business units.
• Provide guidance to the Manager of ABB Development and Reservoir Team to maintain high technical standards.
• Guide development plans and programs as required by the Manager of ABB Development.
• Guide fluid‑characterization studies for understanding fluid distribution in the field.
• Guide analysis and interpretation of RFT/MDT data.
• Participate in integrated field studies for maturing hydrocarbon resources.
• Evaluate well reservoir performance and recommend production improvement opportunities.
• Guide reservoir‑engineering input to business planning, reserve evaluation, and well proposals.
• Work with other disciplines on hydrocarbon maturation to further develop the asset.
• Coach and mentor early‑career professionals.

• Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering or equivalent.

• Excellent knowledge of written, read, and spoken English (required).
• Arabic – native (desirable).

• 10+ years experience in Reservoir Engineering within the Oil & Gas industry.
• Proficiency in industry‑standard reservoir engineering packages such as Kappa, Saphir, OFM, Eclipse.
• Experience with reservoir management, reservoir simulation, reserves evaluation, and production operations and completion procedures.
• Experience in tight gas reservoirs is a plus.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams.

• Leadership of multidisciplinary integrated teams and contribution to exploration opportunity risk assessment and ranking.
• Participation or contribution to technical reviews, audits, and preparation of Field Development Plans.
• Self‑starter with ability to multitask while maintaining priorities.
• Technical competence: computer literacy including MS Office, project‑management skills.

• Internal:
  Subsurface Development, Exploration, Well Delivery, Facilities, Operations, Supply Chain.
• External:
  Contractors, Technical Committees.

• Field operations and office environment.
• Computer screen use.